Drag for planters



J. CASS.

DRAG FOR PLANTERS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, I919.

Patented July 6, 1920.

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Specification of Patent. r mmed J 13 6 1g2@ Application filed fle'plzember 13, 1919. fierial No. 323,522.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrr-r Cass, a citizen of the United Etates ofAmerica, and a resident of Delaware township, Delaware county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drags for Planters,

of which the following is a specification,

My invention relates to. improvements in drags for planters, and the object of myinr proveinent is to furnish. simple, inexpensive and e'l'rective means for smoothing the surface of the soil after the passage of a wheeled planter, or. the like, leveling up tracks made by the wheels and thereby pro venting formation of channels tracks or depressions, especially on sloping surfaces.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are a plan view of a planter, withpartsomitted or removed, having connected thereto a plurahty of my improved drag devices, and

Fig. .2 is aside elevation of the rear part only of saidplanter, showing one of saiddevices connected thereto in an adjusted position. i

Similar numerals of reference denote corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The numeral 1 denotes a skeleton frame of a a corn planter mounted on carrying wheels 2, and having a transverse bar 3 mounted across itsrear end fixedly. .l have shown. three of myimproved drags positioned in transverse alinement immediately to the rear ofsaid planter and connected to I said rear bar 3 by means of flexible linking connections 5 connectedto eye-bolts lpassed.

through thejbar. ,Each device consists of abar bent medially in V-shape having its vertex preferably rounded. andcurved upwardly also at 11. The end parts9 of the diverging memberslO are bent upwardly at a right angle to saidmembers. The nu ineral 7 denotes an adyustablejclamp, which isformed from asingle bar bent into loop shapemounted on the end part 9 and made 1 slidably adjustable thereon, having its end parts secured together by a bolt 8. i l. ring or eye G is fixed on each cl amp 7 and ashort length of chain 5 or other along said hereinafter described and claimed, and which are illustrated inthe accompanying liELW].I1gS,1l1 which Figure 1 is relatively movable linking-means is connected between each eye 6 and the adjacent eye-bolt 4i.

. As shown in Fig. 1, three of said drags 10 are alined transversely behind the planter, two of them being immediately to the rear of the carrying wheels 2. The middle drag may be dispensed with as its oilice is tospace the other drags apart while removing any roughnesses in the soil, such ashoof prints, which may occur in the middle of the space traversed by the planter. As the members 10 are divergent, their action besides smoothing, is to draw some of the loose surface soil together into and level up the depressions in the soil left by the wheels i111 side-hills, especially rain is apt to coarse down the channels afforded by the wheel depressions which not only hastens denudation of thesoil from such slopes, but

also uncovers the seed previously planted in the line of said depressions.

The clamps 7 may be adjustedvertically along the upwardly projecting parts 9 of the drags which will cause more or less tilting of the members 10 whereby the curved verti ass 11 are allowed to more or less engage the soilaccording to the condition of the latter, to engage and propel parts of the soil into the depressions. The raised vertioes 11 also receive and drag forward clods diverted to them by the converging members 10, dragging the clocs forward until they are worn down and distributed.

The forms of these drags may be varied and othermeans of ad'justment employed,

without departing from the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Lel 5 .said upwardly bent parts to tiltingly adjust and clamping-means adjustably mounted on I j and suppo'rt said bar relative to the surface the upwardly bent end parts of said mem- 10 traversed 'by'it; n bers for adjustment thereulong and connect- 4:, A drag for aplanter or other-vehicle, ed'tosaid draft-connection.

5- cOInprising'a-medially bent horizontally po- 3 Signed at \Vaterloo, Iowa, this 14th day .sitioned bar the end parts of Whose members ofAng. 1919,

are bent, upwardly,and Whose medial'bent part is bentupwardly, a draft-Connection, v JOSEPH CASS. 

